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On the business model: are we in a situation where advertisers get to choose to pay to have their ads specifically in firefox, but users can’t donate for firefo
by hrktb 6y ago
On the business model: are we in a situation where advertisers get to choose to pay to have their ads specifically in firefox, but users can’t donate for firefox directly ?
I feel like with this initiative they can set a price for a user’s attention. One could hope the user also gets the option to pay it upfront and opt out.
- chii 6y agoit could be that advertising revenue from displaying in the tiles is something that is recurring and known in advance. Donations can dry up instantly, and there's no obligation to continue - thus a less secure source of revenue.
- hrktb 6y agoI know these feel empty as comments on the net, but I'd pay for a firefox specific subscription. I do for other open sourcy services (Bitwarden etc), there wouldn't be a huge public for that, but it doesn't need to either I think.
- themacguffinman 6y agoYou already can, kind of. Pocket Premium and Mozilla VPN are subscription services that fund Mozilla.
- tinus_hn 6y agoIf you get $10 you can actually choose to use $2 of it every year for five years.
- perryizgr8 6y agoOr you can use $2 in a year and give the remaining $8 to the C-level executives.
- tinus_hn 6y agoWhy, managing all this money is hard work! /s